We all know that young men swund wildly to the right in 2024. One other lesser known fact is that young women also moved right by a pretty big margin, approximately 15 points. Like if there was any demographic that you would have expected to move left, it was young women but they also shifted right by a huge margin. Why do you think that happened?
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We all know that young men swund wildly to the right in 2024. One other lesser known fact is that young women also moved right by a pretty big margin, approximately 15 points. Like if there was any demographic that you would have expected to move left, it was young women but they also shifted right by a huge margin. Why do you think that happened?
https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#youth-vote-+4-for-harris,-major-differences-by-race-and-gender
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Well if you click on your post, one of the articles is
“young Trump voters, more moderate and highly focused on inflation”
Followed by “young Latinos prioritized the economy shifted toward Trump.”
Think about it. If you are 25 in 2024, the entirety of what you know is 3 good years under Trump and 5 bad years of COVID and inflation. You didn’t care or understand about the economy when you were 16. The fact that there was another 8 to 10 years before that that were also pretty good is lost on people that age.
I think money was on everyone’s mind.
And now that it’s been pretty clearly demonstrated that Trump isn’t going to save anyone any money, and the Democrat line was an accurate assessment of the situation the whole time, it seems people might be wandering back to blue. At least, if the last few special elections are an indication. Still early days, hard to say.
The link you shared doesn’t support the statements you made. What the data you shared showed was a lower level of engagement for young voters, meaning fewer young voters voted in general. Of the ones that voted (that’s what exit polls evaluate), more voted Republican which is different than “young women shifting right.”
I think that the answer to the shift in voters themselves is simply down to the fact that (like in pretty much every demographic) the people that felt the motivation to go out and get registered and vote were disenfranchised with the current administration whereas the ones that were not were not particularly motivated. I think by and large when we get a full primary and a democratic presidential candidate gets the full ramp, well see these numbers normalize a lot more.
Inflation.
Society becomes more socially conservative and supportive of gender roles where women don’t have to work outside the house when life’s necessities get expensive relative to earnings.
There’s something in economics called hemline index.
I’m in female dominated career at my age and it’s fully of women joking but not really about wishing to be housewives.
We didn’t. More left wing women just stayed home and didn’t vote, they didn’t shift right.
No.
We need to remember that anyone who is “young” grew up where Trump politics were “normal.” They don’t know anything else. This has been our nightmare for the last 10+ years.
So if you don’t have the history of “Republicans crash the economy, Democrats bail it out” to work with and the Trump bullshit is normalized and everyone around you is saying the cruelty is necessary for economic success you’re gunna get conned.
Many of us genz didn’t really experience a Trump Economy that much most of us were still in high school. Come 2024 where most of us were already in the work force or in college we experienced post covid inflation especially those who lived with parents or rented.
Every incumbent was gonna get beat up by inflation you can’t really educate voters with no a few months
Aside from what others have pointed out, it’s also the same reasons that men shifted right, viewing the Democrats as anti-male is not limited to men, nor does it only impact men’s decision on whom to support.
We can see from polling that Democrat Women under 50 are around 15% more likely than Democrat Women over 50 to think feminism is more harmful than beneficial to society.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5krhvw63l3391.png
Then you need to consider Independent women too where this effect is even more pronounced.
You only need that to partially influence some of their votes to move the dial fairly significantly compared to previous generations, let alone if you have any for whom it is a redline issue.
It also means that these women aren’t going to be comfortable in left wing spaces for a number of reasons, but will find compatriots in right wing spaces. At that point it becomes trivial in psychological terms to shift their views to the right.
This was 3 years ago. During that time some of the older, more feminist demographic died, and the younger, less feminist demographic continued on the trend of moving away from feminism.
The Democrats meanwhile, being a party of geriatrics, are full of openly feminist politicians as opposed to people who are either anti-feminist, non-ideological, or someone who “Owns more than one book” on the topic of gender issues (I.E, is comfortable sometimes approaching gender from a feminist lens, sometimes from an anti-feminist lens), which is dramatically more representative of the national mood on the whole, but especially the mood of the younger generations.
Despite it being something many heterosexual democrats will often proclaim, that they would not support an openly homophobic or transphobic party, and despite acknowledging that men are leaving the left in part due to at least a prevalent perception of misandry, almost nobody points out that this is almost certainly also a reason many women also abandon the democrats.
Monism is not, as it happens, a very successful strategy in politics, and tends to result in a movement haemorrhaging support over time.
(See also “Never trust somebody who only owns one book”)
> In political science, “monism” refers to a worldview or political stance that emphasizes single principles, and a belief in a single, overarching truth or source of legitimacy, often in contrast to pluralism which acknowledges multiple perspectives and values.
Part of it can perhaps be the GOP policy of ending taxes on tips. Tipped work like waiter work is a major job that offers decent pay for women without needing any credentials, so there could be a lot of young women who are either school dropouts or who are working their way through college waiting tables in restaurants and such, who economically benefit from ending taxation of tips
This is also why, even though the no taxes on tips policy in the reconciliation bill currently being crafted isn’t really good policy, that it’s likely going to be yet another tax cut that Dems can just never get rid of unless they want to be shellacked hard in elections
The link does not seem to support your hypothesis.